Baby doll | Luke Brooks

Chapter 3 | New friend

I was pulled from my unconscious state by my body being shaken vigorously.

"We're here, isn't it beautiful!" My mum spoke, grinning from ear to ear.

Stepping out of the car and onto a driveway, I was greeted by a lovely modern looking house.

"It's so nice!"

I took a glimpse at my father who was walking out of our new house, and I can't believe it. We've been here what, 2 minutes? And his already got a beer in his hand.

I was dragged from my thoughts when a very masculine voice cried out in pain.

Turning around, my eyes set on 3 boys mucking about on what I presume to be their front yard. Two of them were ganging up on the third, I don't often relate to a boy as a 'Greek God' but oh my. Wait, was I seeing double?

I then realised that I wasn't in fact turning mental, but I was looking at twins. I found it hard to depict whether or not the third boy was related to the them.

I was yet again, dragged from my thoughts only this time it was not as good as three good looking boys tackling each other to the ground.

I was sharply spun on my heal, almost loosing my balance only to be faced with my father. Automatically smelling the alcohol coming off his breath.

"Go take your things to your room, now." he whispered sternly.

Giving him a slight nod, I walked to the boot of the car to gather my belongings.
After struggling to get up the staircase with several heavy bags, I made it to a room down the hall on the right.

I was stunned when I walked in. It was a gorgeous room, not to big and not to small.

I walked over to my window, and what luck. I was facing not only my own front yard, but the yard that supposedly belonged to those 3 boys.

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I was woken by my annoying alarm ringing like crazy.

Rolling over I hit the buzzer, it was 7am. Being so tired usually I would sleep in 15 more minutes, but I have to take a shower, I mean there's no point in being late on my first day at Penola.

After my shower which had seemed to wake me further, I dried myself before getting into my school dress and jumper. I actually didn't mind Penola's uniform, it was quite nice compared to my old school's uniform.

I didn't bother much with make-up, just a coat of mascara. I didn't have to stress about mascara, my eyelashes were naturally long, I just liked how much nicer it made them look. I also decided to wear my hair down, it was working for me today for a change.

Finally making it to 8am, I hurried down the stairs and out the door since mum had already left for work and I wasn't sure where my father was.

I knew exactly how to get to school, mum showed me the route from our house. It was just up the street and around the corner, about a 10 minute walk so it didn't take me long.

Walking through the school gates, nervous was an understatement seeing as I didn't know a single person.

Me being me, I wasn't watching where I was going and ran straight into a girl causing her to fall over. I congratulated myself for being at my new school no longer then 30 seconds, and all I've done is gotten lost and knocked someone flat on the ground.

"I'm so sorry!" I managed to choke out before rushing over and helping her up.

"I wasn't watching where I was going," I added, as she stood up.

"It's fine don't worry about it! I run into everyone," She said, sending me a smile.

"Are you new here? I don't think I've seen you around before?" She questioned.

"Yeah, I moved here from the other side of Melbourne. I have no idea what I'm doing or where I'm going," I laughed.

She laughed before nodding her head in the direction off a tall building, "Come with me, I'll take you to the office to get your timetable and the key for your locker," She said, grabbing my hand and pulling me along.

This girl seemed overly nice, but I don't mind people with a bubbly personality such as hers.

"Alice Waters?" The lady questioned me, as we stood in the office.

"That's me," I spoke, smiling slightly.

After handing me a key to my locker and my timetable, the girl I had bumped into earlier who had simply introduced herself as Olivia, stood beside me studying my timetable while I placed my books into my locker.

"Okay, you're in all my classes except maths!" She grinned.

"Thank god I met someone before class started," I replied sheepishly.

Our first class for the day was English, the teacher smiled at us as we entered. We took our seats and not long after the class fell silent.

"We have a new student joining us, she's moved here from the other side of Melbourne. Will everyone please make Alice feel welcome," The teacher explained, gesturing his hand towards me.

Everyone's eyes landed on me, I felt my cheeks start to burn up little. But I received a few smiles which put me at ease.

Turning my head away from the teacher for a mure moment, I locked gazes with a very good looking boy. His main focus seemed to be playing with his lip ring, which I found was a plus in my books. He simply looked away but I kept my stare, trying to pin point where I recognised him from.

It then came to mind, that he was one of the boys mucking about outside the house across the street from mine, one of the twins.

Olivia nudged my side, I pulled my gaze off the boy and focused on her. Only, she was looking over at him.

"That's Luke," she explained.

"He has a twin, Jai and an older brother, Beau. They go here to," she whispered.

"I'm pretty sure I live across the street from them," I replied.

"So you moved into that house that was for sale, huh?" She grinned.
"I'm quite good friends with them and over there a lot, I'll introduce you to them, you should always get to know your good looking neighbours," She giggled.

I felt my cheeks warm up again, before softly punching her in the arm. I take a quick glance at 'Luke' who was focusing on the teacher. He turned his attention to me for only a second, and sent me a warm smile before looking back at the teacher.

My stomach did a flip, before I quickly pushed the feeling aside and engaged myself into the lesson.